Lost Love: A True Story of Passion, Murder, and Justice in Old New York

by George Cooper

Book Overview

Set in New York in the years after the Civil War, this gripping, poignant book is the story of a love affair that ended in one of the most sensational murder trials of the nineteenth century. It is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067975699X
• ISBN13: 9780679756996
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

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After the murder has been committed, the author spends time giving us the backgrounds of the three principle characters. Even if you aren't a history fan, don't skip these chapters because they'll help you understand the account of the actual trial. This is the story of a talented and intelligent woman who finds both the courage to leave and divorce her abusive alcoholic husband and to fall in love with a brave and decent man in spite of she went through. Then she loses her true love when her scum ex kills him. The chapters on the trial were difficult to endure because the defense team was so slick and the prosecution team was so lame. I was so angry with the prosecution team because they didn't even try to counter the defense team's "sanctity of marriage" ploy with the theme that no one on the jury would want to have his sister or daughter married to a drunken brute such as the defendant. Thank goodness the book tells us what happened to these people! ! after the trial, or it would be very depressing to read. I like the fact that the author gives us so many actual quotations from the original sources. I *really* hate books which are supposed to be factual accounts of true crimes but the authors include thoughts and dialog that are pure speculation because there is no reliable source for that information! Don't let the fact that this murder and trial happened over a hundred years ago stop you from reading it. Similar stories are happening today. Ann E. Nichols